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<br />Patricia Thomas, AlA <br />June 8,2006 <br />Page. 4 <br /> <br />should take place to encourage the development envisioned by the <br />Plan. <br /> <br />The direction of the Downtown Plan with regard to this parcel is not <br />conditional upon. any additional findings of need or land use inventory <br />considerations. That work was done when the Downtown Plan was <br />adopted. While it may be the ~ase that.an opponent could have called <br />upon the. City to specifically address the appropriateness of <br />redesignation of specific sites when the Downtown Plan was <br />considered, no such objection was made and no appeal was made of <br />the adoption of the Downtown Plan. Now the diagram must be made <br />consistent with the Plan text~ <br /> <br />2. . Internal Consistency with M.etro Plan <br /> <br />Since the Metro Plan was effectively amended by the new Downtown. <br />Plan, there had to be findings that those ame~dments left the Metro <br />Plan internally consiste~t. In fact, such findings were made at the <br />time of adoption of the Downtown Plan. The cp.ange of the Metro Plan. <br />map, when that change is only to make it conform. with the text of the <br />adopted refinement plan, and now the Metro Plan, should not require <br />new findings of Metro Plan consistency. The present action only has <br />the effect of making the Metr~ Plan Diagram consistent with the Metro <br />Plan, as amend~d by the Downtown Plan. <br /> <br />Zone Change <br /> <br />Written Statement <br /> <br />· It is correct, as in.dicated above:- there is no diagram in the <br />Downtown Plan which can be amended by a Metro Plan <br />amendment. <br /> <br />· The Metro Plan designation of the. site noted in the middle of page 2 <br />is in error. As indicated in the Metro Plan application, the present <br />designation is HDR/MU IND. <br /> <br />· Findings are not provided for Economic Element policy #6 relative <br />to the supply of, and demand for, commercial and industrial land <br />in this area for the reasons previously stated. The Metro Plan has <br />been amended by the Downtown Plan and found to be consi~tent <br />with that plan. The designation must, therefore, be consi~tent with <br />